In this thread: people fighting each over tipping, when its the system that is at fault. Your system is screwed up, look at the rest of the world.
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What would happen is people didn't tip? Places that pay poor wages would lose staff and force them to close or pay better. Its not the customers who need to support the current system, but everyone to recognize its unjust and boycott it. Tipping only prolongs the wrong that is being done.
aug 27, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
What about our country leads you to conclude that low-wage workers have massive organizing power? We know it’s wrong. Our government is sliding into fascism. Sorry if it’s annoying to watch us get oppressed by a tyrannical government.
aug 28, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
Supporting people who refuse to tip instead of yelling at them is one way to change things. Define first what is wrong with the system. Criminally low pay. So how do you correct it? Not by socializing customers to top up low pay with a form of organsed begging.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 am • 3 0 • view
You correct it by collective bargaining, which is repeatedly slapped down by both major parties in the government here. Blaming individuals for their circumstances is how we got where we are. It’s telling that you blame the servers, not the businesses enforcing tipping culture. Do better.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
No, that's not what I am doing. My whole premise, in the puny number of letters BS allows was to fight the system through boycotting businesses that allow tipping. I'm sure I said this in the first or second post. You are just lashing out.
aug 28, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
Not tipping is not at all the same as boycotting businesses that promote tipping culture. You mentioned both. Boycotting is the best option, but it’s not easy. Do you cut your own hair? Only eat food you personally prepare? Commute only in your own car or publicly-owned transit?
aug 28, 2025, 3:58 am • 2 0 • view
Ok, I was only thinking about food servers. However from the country that organized the Occupy movement, BLM movement, and other national wide community pressure groups, I am sure , you could organize a boycott of low paid tipping businesses focused on a few worst offenders.
aug 28, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
BLM led some politicians to rethink how they spoke, but also triggered a massive expansion in the overall police state that you see today. I would argue that Occupy achieved nothing meaningful. Citizens United was a devastating blow to our democracy, and many of us saw that when it was handed down.
aug 28, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
Decline assistance from hotel employees? Take your pets with you every time you travel? Fully clean your own hotel room after your stay? Always shop personally instead of ordering delivery? Tattoo yourself? Do your own nails? Decline valet parking, even if that’s all the hotel offers?
aug 28, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
Tipping culture is rooted in America’s post-slavery history. It is tied to marginalized people. The reason America can’t get rid of it is not because of marginalized people. It’s because you need at least $10 million here to have any kind of political impact. The millionaires like it, so it stays.
aug 28, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view